New Delhi: Everyone will remember that scene of the film 'Sholay' when Veeru (Dharmendra) sends his friend Jai (Amitabh Bachchan) to Mausi (Leela Mishra) to talk about marriage with Basanti (Hema Malini). Jai explains to Mausi in his special style that Veeru will be the best life partner for Basanti, but Mausi replies, "Even if your friend has 100 flaws, only praises will come out of your mouth." This scene is one of the most famous and memorable scenes of the film, but do you know that there is a real story hidden behind this scene?

Actually, the idea of ​​this scene was inspired by the real life of the film's writers Javed Akhtar and Salim Khan. This famous and iconic pair of Hindi cinema wrote the story and dialogues of Sholay. In such a situation, the conversation between Jai and Mausi regarding the marriage of Basanti and Veeru was taken from real life. This was revealed by Salim-Javed themselves.

Salim- Javed revealed the secrets of their hearts

Javed Akhtar and Salim Khan's documentary series Angry Young Man has been released recently. In such a situation, the makers had organized a special roundtable chat with Salim Khan and Javed Akhtar, which was hosted by Farah Khan. During this, Salman Khan, Farhan and Zoya Akhtar and the director of the documentary series Namrata Rao were also a part of it. During the conversation, Javed Akhtar and Salim Khan shared many interesting and unheard stories. An incident related to Sholay also came to light.

Javed Akhtar did not want to get married

Salim Khan and Javed Akhtar had linked this scene of Mauli to an incident from their personal life. The story goes that Javed Akhtar, who was then focusing on his career, sent Salim Khan to Honey Irani's (Javed Akhtar's ex-wife) mother to break his marriage, as he knew Honey Irani's family for a long time.

Salim Khan listed the evils of Javed Akhtar

Actually, Javed Akhtar was not ready for marriage and he did not intend to get married at that time. On the other hand, Honey Irani's mother wanted her daughter and Javed sahab to get married because the closeness between the two was increasing. In such a situation, when Salim Khan went to Honey Irani's mother, he said many bad things about Javed Akhtar and even called him a drunkard. The conversation that took place between the two to break the marriage was decided by Salim-Javed in Sholay, which later became an iconic scene of Indian cinema.

The brilliant cast of Sholay

Sholay was the biggest hit film of Salim-Javed's career. Even today both are known for this film. Sholay was released on 15 August 1975. The film had Amitabh Bachchan and Dharmendra, Hema Malini, Leela Mishra along with Jaya Bachchan, Sanjeev Kumar and Amjad Khan in lead roles. Sholay was directed by Ramesh Sippy. This film did a business of about 3 crores at that time.